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Month: February 2017

If you are willing to send multiple newsletters every month (I think the minimum cadence should be monthly), and you want to do some market segmentation, you may want to try this technique. It assumes you have already installed my Mailchimp Integration for Zen Cart.

Login to Mailchimp and click the Lists menu at the top. Then on the right, click the Stats dropdown and select Signup forms.

Click the Select button on Embedded Forms.

Under Manage Contacts, click Groups.

Click the Create Groups button, and add Checkboxes and Radio buttons as need be. You can add many Groups, so don’t be afraid to partition your questions.

Click Signup Forms and Embedded Forms again. The code for the form shown in the preview is right below the preview window. Copy this code and paste it into a new page (or sidebox) on your site.

There was a bug in the subscriber check in the discount logic which has just been fixed; please update to version 4.0b, which is available in the Zen Cart downloads area. Links and documentation are on the Zen Cart Newsletter Discount Help page.

If you’re getting this warning message in your ZenCart checkout using Paypal Payments Standard, fear not! There issue is just that Paypal is no longer using commas in the payment amount, and there’s a fix for it. The options are described in the Zen Cart forum thread PayPal deleting the comma from PayPal Standard in Jan 2017.